{"id":693,"count":1,"description":"<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-25199 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1000010837-300x387.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"387\" \/>David Matthews is a lecturer and course director for the undergraduate program in Health and Social Care at Bangor University, Wales. His writings focus on welfare, the welfare state, and welfare-related social policy issues such as health, mental health, housing, and disability.\u00a0Growing up in a working-class family who relied upon the welfare system as both a means of support and to provide opportunities, David is acutely aware of the necessity of welfare to improve people's lives, and the need to develop a system that meets the real needs of working people. David\u2019s new book, The Class Struggle and Welfare: Social Policy under Capitalism, is forthcoming from Monthly Review Press early in 2025.","link":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/authors\/david-matthews\/","name":"David Matthews","slug":"david-matthews","taxonomy":"authors","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/authors"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?authors=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}